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“Reflections in the Margins: Representations of the
Marginalized in Iberian and Latin American Literatures”
The University of Chicago
October 16-17, 2009
Diego Velázquez, La cena en Emaús, Oil on Canvas, 55 x 118 cm. Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
This event is co-sponsored by the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry
of Culture and United States Universities, the Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Department of History, The Division of
the Humanities, The Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Center for Gender Studies, and
the University of Chicago Student Government.
Friday, October 16
8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast and Registration (Franke Institute)* 9:00-9:30 Opening Remarks
Traci Dybdahl, President, Spanish Graduate Students Committee
Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Advisor to the Spanish Graduate Students Committee,
University of Chicago
9:45-11:00 Panel 1: Repensando el pasado esclavista: el espectro de la esclavitud
en el siglo XX
Panel chair: Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Associate Professor of Latin American
Literature, University of Chicago
9:45-10:05 “El hombre viejo: la paradoja del Revolucionario en Cimarrón” Jenna Leving, University of Chicago
10:05-10:25 “A curious normative transgression: understanding the function of incest in Novás Calvo’s El negrero”
Dana Gordon, University of Chicago 10:25-10:45 “Más allá de las palabras: la danza y la memoria histórica en las narrativas
esclavistas” Victoria Fortuna, Northwestern University, Department of Performance Studies
10:45-11:00 Discussion
9:45-11:00 Panel 2: Entre mujeres I: relaciones femeninas en España y en el
Nuevo Mundo, siglos XVI-XVII (Special Collections Seminar
Room)**
Panel chair: Christopher Weimer, Professor of Spanish, Oklahoma State
University
9:45-10:05 “In the Margins of Friendship: Women’s Virtue versus Male amicitia perfecta in Early Modern Women’s Theater”
Juan Pablo Gil-Osle, Arkansas State University 10:05-10:25 “Women Writers and Their Voices: Deciphering Female-Female Friendships in
Seventeenth Century Spain and New Spain” Crystal Valdez, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
10:25-10:45 “Rivalry Amongst Female Characters of Los empeños de una casa by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz”
Kristin Connor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
10:45-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:30 Panel 3: ¿Convivencia o marginación? Fuentes literarias judeo-
cristianas desde la Edad Media hasta finales del siglo XVI
Panel chair: David Nirenberg, Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor
of Medieval History and Social Thought, University of Chicago
11:15-11:35 “Infusing the Margins into the Center: The Davidic Tradition and its Influence on the Poema de Mío Cid”
James Nemiroff, University of Chicago 11:35-11:55 “Tales of Travel: The Sea and Seafaring in Medieval Iberian Jewish Literature”
Nico Parmley, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities
11:55-12:15 “‘Escucha el clamor de mi pueblo’: El Salterio como expresión de la marginación judeo-cristiana en Jorge Montemayor y Fray Luis de León”
José Ramón Alcántara-Mejía, Universidad Iberoamericana, México
12:15-12:30 Discussion
11:15-12:30 Panel 4: Memoria, política y estado: estrategias de inclusión y
exclusión (Special Collections Seminar Room)
Panel chair: Alejandro Maya, Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago
11:15-11:35 “El teatro como arte de la memoria: El jardín quemado de Juan Mayorga” Bohumira Smidakova, Miami University at Ohio
11:35-11:55 “En los márgenes del discurso: Memoria de las masacres de Río Negro de Jesús
Tecú Osorio” Virginia Ruifernández Conde, Michigan State University
11:55-12:15 “La ciudad y los cuerpos marginales en Montacerdos de Cronwell Jara” Rommy Balabarca-Fataccioli, Boston University
12:15-12:30 Discussion
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:45 Panel 5: La recuperación de una historia marginada: los vencidos de
la guerra civil española y el franquismo
Panel chair: Novia Pagone, Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago
1:30-1:50 “A Wandering Man: Unstable Space in La colmena” Adam L. Winkel, Columbia University
1:50-2:10 “From the Creative Margins: Republican Artists in Carlos Saura’s ¡Ay,
Carmela! and Manuel Rivas’s Los libros arden mal” Raphael A. Apter, University of Iowa
2:10-2:30 “La historia postmoderna en La voz dormida de Dulce Chacón”
Berta Carrasco de Miguel, Western Michigan University
2:30-2:45 Discussion
1:30-2:45 Panel 6: Colonización y marginación: la voz indígena en la literatura
del Nuevo Mundo (Special Collections Seminar Room)
Panel chair: Cristián Roa-de-la-Carrera, Associate Professor of Spanish,
University of Illinois at Chicago
1:30-1:50 “At the Margins of History: Alva Ixtlilxóchitl Rewrites López de Gómara”
Heather Allen, University of Chicago
1:50-2:10 “Agencia indígena: adaptación y resistencia en el Popol Vuh” Christopher M. Coleman, University of Illinois at Chicago
2:10-2:30 “Autor, narrador y sujeto marginado: Concolorcorvo en El Lazarillo de ciegos
caminantes (1775)” José Francisco Robles, El Colegio de México, México
2:30-2:45 Discussion
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:15 Panel 7: “¿La justicia, la justicia seguirás?” Sistema legal y
marginación institucional en los siglos XVI-XVII
Panel chair: James Nemiroff, Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago
3:00-3:20 “A Hero of the Marginalized: Anthropology and Action in San Juan de la Cruz” Anthony F. Butler, University of Missouri-Columbia
3:20-3:40 “‘Contaré un caso’: La justicia y el poder en Lazarillo de Tormes” Jennifer Darrell, Yale University
3:40-4:00 “The Other Carvajal: Reading Isabel de Carvajal’s Second Inquisitorial Trial”
Emily Colbert, University of California at Irvine
4:00-4:15 Discussion
3:00-4:15 Panel 8: Entre mujeres II: escritoras hispanas y el sujeto femenino en
los siglos XX y XXI (Special Collections Seminar Room)
Panel chair: Kelly Austin, Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature,
University of Chicago
3:00-3:20 “Negación de la marginalidad en la poesía de Blanca Varela”
María Quiroz Taub, University of Missouri at Columbia 3:20-3:40 “La desmarginalización de la prostituta en La novia negra”
Sandra Delgado Merrill, University of Central Missouri 3:40-4:00 “La elección de Antígona: Una reinterpretación del mito en las escritoras latinas
de Estados Unidos” Murat Rodríguez, Texas A&M University
4:00-4:15 Discussion
4:15-4:30 Break
4:30-5:45 Panel 9: Comunidades autónomas en España: el caso de Cataluña
Panel chair: Mario Santana, Associate Professor of Spanish Literature,
University of Chicago
4:30-4:50 “Desde el margen: The Peripheral and Privileged in the Travel Writing of
Santiago Rusiñol” Laura Connor, Harvard University
4:50-5:10 “Art and Performance at the Margin: Remapping Barcelona’s Urban Landscape”
Olga Sendra-Ferrer, Princeton University 5:10-5:30 “Failed Ethics: Patriarchy and Centralist Spanish Ideology in Albert Boadella’s
Adiós Cataluña. Crónica de amor y de guerra” Stephanie Mueller, University of Iowa
5:30-5:45 Discussion
End of Day 1
Saturday, October 17
9:00-9:30 Breakfast
9:30-10:45 Panel 10: Cuerpo y poder: metáforas de la marginación desde la
Edad Media hasta finales del siglo XVII
Panel chair: Anita Damjanovi!, Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago
9:30-9:50 “The Bodily Struggle at the Margins in the Poema de mío Cid”
Shaun Bauer, Tulane University 9:50-10:10 “Anatomical Charts and Sor Juana’s Primero Sueño: Gender, Mapping, and
Knowledge” Max Ubelaker Andrade, Boston University
10:10-10:30 “Embodying Political Monstrosities: The Curious Case of the Asturian Court
Painter Juan Carreño de Miranda (1614-1685)” Jorge Abril Sánchez, Reed College
10:30-10:45 Discussion
11:00-12:15 Panel 11: Encuentros en el margen: relaciones con el Otro en el siglo
XIX
Panel chair: Dain Borges, Associate Professor of History and the Director of
the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Chicago
11:00-11:20 “The Marginalized Other’s Representation of the Marginalized Other: Late Nineteenth-Century Portuguese Representations on the Orient”
Timothy P. Gaster, Knox College 11:20-11:40 “Cumandá y el Orientalismo ecuatoriano”
Ruth Rodríguez, City University of New York
11:40-12:00 “Ojos que sí ven, corazón que sí siente: La relación visual entre los personajes de Sab de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda”
Andrea M. Castelluccio, University of Illinois at Chicago
12:00-12:15 Discussion
11:00-12:15 Panel 12: En el camino: repensando la marginalidad en los textos y
los estudios medievales (Special Collections Seminar Room)
Panel chair: Ryan Giles, Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature,
University of Chicago
11:00-11:20 “Del Homo Viator al conquistador”
María del Mar Gómez Glez, New York University 11:20-11:40 “Marginal Discourses: Medieval Iconography and Its Meaning”
David Arbesú, Augustana College 11:40-12:00 “Ritual Expulsion or Transformation: Medieval Incest after the Trial”
Boncho Dragiyski, Washington University at St. Louis
12:00-12:15 Discussion
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:45 Panel 13: El Nuevo Mundo y el público europeo: los discursos
colonialistas y la marginación
Panel chair: Heather Allen, Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago
1:30-1:50 “Los motivos del discurso hagiográfico en la Brevísima relación de la
destrucción de las Indias” Rosario Pujals Vickery, University of Georgia
1:50-2:10 “El bárbaro como instrumento: la representación literaria del indio en La
Araucana” Ricardo Monsalve C., Yale University
2:10-2:30 “Civilizing Segismundo: La vida es sueño and the Discourses of Colonialism”
Christopher Weimer, Oklahoma State University
2:30-2:45 Discussion
1:30-2:45 Panel 14: Repensando el canon: propuestas teóricas en los siglos XIX
y XX (Special Collections Seminar Room)
Panel chair: Alfredo Cesar Melo, Assistant Professor of Luso-Brazilian
Literature, University of Chicago
1:30-1:50 “Don Valera frente al Diablo y el gaucho” Carlos Mario Mejía Suárez, University of Iowa
1:50-2:10 “Cómo narrar lo marginal: la novela regional como eje de la conformación de un
canon latinoamericano en Antônio Cândido y Ángel Rama” Alfredo Duplat, University of Iowa
2:10-2:30 “La literatura basura: un acercamiento a la narrativa de Guillermo Fadanelli” Héctor Eduardo Ríos González, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Unidad Iztapalapa, México
2:30-2:45 Discussion
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:15 Panel 15: Marginación en la obra de Cervantes
Panel chair: Frederick de Armas, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the
Humanities, Spanish Literature and Comparative Literature, University of
Chicago
3:00-3:20 “Jerarquías invertidas en ‘El celoso extremeño’ de Miguel de Cervantes”
Erika Tanács, University of Chicago
3:20-3:40 “Renaissance Ingenio and Wisdom in Cervantes’s ‘La Gitanilla’” Carmela Mattza, University of Chicago
3:40-4:00 “Moorish Quixote: Reframing the Novel” Robert S. Stone, US Naval Academy
4:00-4:15 Discussion
4:15-4:30 Break
4:30-6:00 Keynote Address
“From the Margins to the Edge: Reflections on Celestina and the
Place without a Telos”
E. Michael Gerli, Commonwealth Professor of Spanish, University of
Virginia
Presented by Frederick de Armas, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, University of Chicago
6:00 Closure of the Conference and Reception at the Smart Museum****
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Humanities.
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1100 East 57th Street, Chicago (Inside the Regenstein Library on the 1st floor) *** Regenstein Library Room 523
1100 East 57th Street, Chicago (On the 5th floor of the Regenstein Library in the East Asia Collections) **** Smart Museum of Art
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